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AMD RDNA/CDNA graphics roadmap unveiled, RDNA3 has over 50% better performance per watt, RDNA4 by 2024

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rdna-cdna-graphics-roadmap-unveiled-rdna3-has-over-50-better-performance-per-watt-rdna4-by-2024

While I am sure it's early, I was hoping they would say something for ML and Ray Tracing.

AMD confirms Zen CPU architecture roadmap, Zen4 and Zen5 with V-Cache by 2024

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-zen-cpu-architecture-roadmap-zen4-and-zen5-with-v-cache-by-2024

Only 10% ipc improvement? Yikes...

Updated Road Map:

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You know I am still going to upgrade just for that 8-10% IPC improvement, right? :P
16 Core Ryzen 7950X come at me.

Chiplets for GPU's is a big deal, AMD might have solved the issue about bandwidth between chiplets, GPU's need to share potentially terabytes worth of data very quickly... Need more details obviously.

Re-architectured RDNA cores too, maybe the rumor of VLIW2 might end up being true?



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Yea if you are upgrading from something older than Ryzen 5000, then it will still be a great upgrade. It's just not a very exciting product considering the crazy uplifts we had in the past and not to mention DDR5 will still be expensive when this comes out with no DDR4 option like Alder Lake has. But I'll wait for the benchmarks. Hopefully it's at least faster than Alder Lake S/5800X3D.



                  

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I want to see how they spin this part:

"Mark Pepermaster also confirmed that Zen4 architecture has IPC between 8% to 10%, while offering over 15%. The new architecture offer over 25% better performance per watt and 35% overall performance improvement over Zen3 architecture. This claim is based on Cinebench benchmark."

So now a processor with a 170W TDP (or whatever) that gives around a 15% better performance, is supposed to bring a 25% perf/watt improvement over a 105W one? Something doesn't feel right.

The 50% improvement of RDNA3 was already said during the launch of the 6000 series, so it's not really something new, but we'll see what we get and what does that 50% figure is about. Is it overall, raster, RT?



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Ngl, but that trailer from Frost Giant kinda felt underwhelming for me.

Also didn't help that I checked out their game's storefront page on Steam, only to find the tags "PVP/F2P/Esports" included with others. I've gottan out of PVP gaming for years now, and I'm really not a huge fan of PVP games crushing other modes, or being the main focus, only for that mode to die out (because PVP based games always come with a limited lifespan) and the lacklusture other mades having suffered because of PVP focus.

Not a big fan of F2P either, and I know folks like Total Biscuit lauded the idea and eventual reality of SC II going F2P, I disliked it heavily, because I'd already bought the game before, 3 expansions, and now the game is riddled with dangled carrots in the form of skins, nova ops and co-op commanders, and announcer packs, all of which put an asking price combined just over £200, which imo is insane.

I just want a fully fledged RTS game where I pay once and it's mine, not a game that has content ripped for it to be sold later on or "added" (the usual defence for F2P or cutting room floor content), and costs trying to rival train simulator.

Really hope I'm wrong, but I just see F2P as a massive thorn in the side of getting good content. I've played HotS for years now and it started as a F2P game, but my god was the RNG lootbox shit annoying, but since that's had to be toned down due to EA's lootbox bs, the game has gotten grindier for obtaining shards to get skins without paying money to get said skins (seriously, it's either got to be a skinners box grind fest or you pay for the skins, and that's what I loathe about F2P, it just embeds those two paths into a game's DNA, there is no 3rd and correct path).

I also just want a PVE based RTS, because PVP is limited, mostly preditable, and I just want to see honest to god good AI in an RTS, instead of one that has fdull map awareness and cheats up the wazoo, and PVP doesn't supply that, since you're just met with the typical:

Cheese builds
Meta focus
Rushing
Spamming deathballs

That's what I've seen over the yrs within that genre and it's become super boring, somewhat arrogant and half witted at times. SCII got it's esports and PVP focus due to micro management and Korea, but C&C didn't really get much if any at all during it's tenure, but that's because they put more stock into their zany stories, units and FMV's (yes SC has a campaign, but more often then not, I see ppl still talking about Pro league, players like White Ra, over kerrigan becoming a literal god at the end of SCII, I shit you not).



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It's the Friday news (part one)!

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Street Fighter 2 is free on Steam to celebrate a new trove of Capcom reissues
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/street-fighter-2-is-free-on-steam-to-celebrate-a-new-trove-of-capcom-reissues/
Before there was Street Fighter 6, 5, 4, and 3, there was Street Fighter 2. It was an astonishing success on its arcade release in 1991, and is arguably the reason the series still exists today. If you're not among the millions who have played it, here's good news: the original arcade version of Street Fighter 2 is free on Steam right now.
It's part of Capcom Arcade Stadium, which is basically a free container app allowing you to purchase a range of Capcom arcade classics in separate themed packs. Normally, you only get 1943 -The Battle of Midway for free with it, but if you head over to Steam and add this bundle to your account, you'll get Capcom Arcade Stadium with Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior unlocked for free.

The Humble Store has a new Mount&Blade Summer Sale, featuring up to 75% discounts during the next 27 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/mount-blade-summer-sale/.

Fanatical has a new Star Deal: GIGA WRECKER will be 75% off during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/giga-wrecker.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

Aliens: Dark Descent is an isometric squad-based single-player action game
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/aliens-dark-descent-is-an-isometric-squad-based-single-player-action-game/
Focus Entertainment and Tindalos Interactive have revealed Aliens: Dark Descent; an isometric single-player squad-based action game set within the iconic Alien franchise. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher released a cinematic trailer that you can find below.

New trailers released for The Callisto Protocol, Street Fighter 6, Flashback 2, COD: Modern Warfare 2 & more
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-trailers-released-for-the-callisto-protocol-street-fighter-6-flashback-2-cod-modern-warfare-2-more/
A number of trailers have aired during the Summer Game Fest 2022 event. Instead of presenting them one at a time, we’ve decided to collect all of them and share them in one big article. So, without any further ado, here are the Summer Game Fest trailers for The Callisto Protocol, Street Fighter 6, Flashback 2, COD: Modern Warfare 2, Witchfire, One Piece Odyssey, Warhammer 40K: Darktide and ROUTINE.

Layers of Fears will be using Unreal Engine 5, Ray Tracing & Lumen
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-layers-of-fears-will-be-using-unreal-engine-5-ray-tracing-lumen/
In September 2021, we shared the first in-engine trailer of a new Layers of Fear game. And today, Bloober Team has officially announced this project. Moreover, the team released a new trailer that you can find below.

Marvel’s Midnight Suns releases on October 7th, gets new in-engine trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/marvels-midnight-suns-releases-on-october-7th-gets-new-in-engine-trailer/
2K and Marvel Entertainment today announced Marvel’s Midnight Suns will launch on October 7th, 2022. Created by Firaxis Games, Marvel’s Midnight Suns is an all-new tactical RPG set in the darker side of the Marvel Universe.

Coffee Stain has announced Goat Simulator 3, coming to PC in Fall 2022
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/coffee-stain-has-announced-goat-simulator-3-coming-to-pc-in-fall-2022/
Coffee Stain Publishing, Coffee Stain North and Koch Media have announced Goat Simulator 3, which will release this Fall exclusively on Epic Games Store. In order to celebrate this announcement, the teams released the game’s debut trailer that you can find below.

Gotham Knights gets new screenshots and trailer, focusing on Nightwing
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/gotham-knights-gets-new-screenshots-and-trailer-focusing-on-nightwing/
Warner Bros has released a new set of screenshots and a new trailer for Gotham Knights, focusing on Nightwing. The video shows off some of his suitstyles, which players can craft and customize throughout the game.

Saints Row Boss Factory Demo is now available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/saints-row-boss-factory-demo-is-now-available-for-download/
Deep Silver and Volition have released Boss Factory; a brand new standalone demo that showcases Saints Row’s best and boldest customization suite.
>> Meh. I want a demo of the game, not of the tools to create a character.

Stormgate is a new free-to-play RTS, powered by Unreal Engine 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/stormgate-is-a-new-free-to-play-rts-powered-by-unreal-engine-5/
Frost Giant Studios has announced a new free-to-play RTS that will be powered by Unreal Engine 5, called Stormgate. Founded by veterans of the Warcraft and StarCraft franchises, Frost Giant is on a mission to build the next great RTS.



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Friday news part two:

Among Us officially crosses over with Fortnite
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/among-us-officially-crosses-over-with-fortnite/
Epic's decision to add an overtly Among Us-like mode to Fortnite last year generated a little bit of friction with Innersloth, developer of the actual Among Us. The studio acknowledged that the mechanics of the game aren't new and "shouldn't be gatekept," but called out Epic for leaning heavily into Among Us specifically with "themes and terminology," including the name of the mode: Impostors.
The whole thing was more simmering heat than actual beef. Innersloth also said that "it would've been really, really cool" to work with Epic on a crossover, and then a couple months later the two studios teased an actual collaboration of some sort. And today, we have it: Not a new game mode, unfortunately, but more stuff you can buy.

Midnight Suns director didn't get a heads up about plot similarities in the new Doctor Strange movie
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/midnight-suns-sam-raimi-doctor-strange-movie/
Midnight Suns, the upcoming Marvel RPG from Firaxis, is based on the occult 'Midnight Sons' run of comics from the '90s. It's heavy on magic, ghosts, and demons, which creative director Jake Solomon thought would set it apart from the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, given that the Avengers typically busy themselves with space aliens rather than ancient tomes of evil magic. What Solomon did not know was that the world's foremost fan of evil magic tomes was going to direct a Doctor Strange movie.

Outriders is still a thing apparently and it's getting an expansion this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/outriders-is-still-a-thing-apparently-and-its-getting-an-expansion-this-month/
Outriders is a game I definitely remember coming out last year. Apparently, the third-person looter shooter is getting an expansion called Worldslayer and it'll be out really soon.

American Arcadia is like a reality show, but if your ratings drop, they kill you
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/american-arcadia-is-like-a-reality-show-but-if-your-ratings-drop-they-kill-you/
In the movie The Truman Show, Truman was an average guy who unbeknownst to him was the lead character in a reality show built around his life. He lived in a fake city, was surrounded by cameras, and had no idea he was constantly being watched by millions of people.
American Arcadia has that same vibe. The massive city you live in has been created for the entertainment of a television audience. You have a comfortable life there along with lots of other "citizens," but if your ratings drop too much, well... you're hunted down and killed. It's what you might call cancellation.

Speedrunning FPS Neon White finally gets a release date
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/speedrunning-fps-game-neon-white-finally-gets-a-release-date/
Neon White is mostly about being an assassin from hell with the chance to get to heaven by performing incredible moves at a lightning pace. But it's also about looking great and flirting which, come on, is a hell of a pastime. The card-based, action, FPS, speedrunning, um, flirting sim has finally gotten a release date in another hot trailer.

Take a deep dive into dangerous realms in co-op survival game Nightingale
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/take-a-deep-dive-into-dangerous-realms-in-co-op-survival-game-nightingale/
Shared world survival game Nightingale takes place in an alt-history of the Victorian era, where human beings discovered magic and started messing around with portals to strange new worlds. But as tends to happen when visiting other dimensions, something goes horribly wrong.

In Time Flies, you play as a fly that lives one second for every year of your life expectancy
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/in-time-flies-you-play-as-a-fly-that-lives-one-second-for-every-year-of-your-life-expectancy/
A trailer for indie game Time Flies appeared at Summer Game Fest's Day of the Devs segment today, and shows a little fly trundling through a home in stark, 1-bit visuals. Old timey jazz crackles through a record player in the other room, and our hero languidly hovers near a glue trap. And then it's dead, stuck to the trap like its confederates, game over, reload.

Choo-Choo Charles is coming to get you this year
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/choo-choo-charles-is-coming-to-get-you-this-year/
Sometimes you're scavenging equipment from abandoned camps in the forest and then a train with a clown face and spider legs races toward you. We've all been there. In Choo-Choo Charles, you can fight back, and developer Two Star Games showed a little bit of how that'll unfold in a new gameplay preview shown during the Day of the Devs segment in the Summer Game Fest stream.

Will the The Last of Us multiplayer game come to PC?
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/will-the-the-last-of-us-multiplayer-game-come-to-pc/
Earlier today a long-rumoured remake of The Last Of Us leaked shortly before the official announcement, with the big news being that it's in development for PC (opens in new tab). But Naughty Dog wasn't finished there, and during Geoff Keighley's game jamboree it announced a new standalone The Last of Us multiplayer game.
>> The summary is that they don't know, but the "live service" elements it will have make it a good candidate to come to our platform.

Keep your guests comfy in this bed and breakfast sim, and also you are a bear
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/keep-your-guests-comfy-in-this-bed-and-breakfast-sim-and-also-you-are-a-bear/
I know we're not even halfway through this big summer gaming glut, but can we just stop right here? I've found the game I want to play and I don't need to see any more games. Let's just shut things down so I can go play Bear and Breakfast when it releases next month.

Schim is an adorable platformer about hopping from shadow to shadow
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/schim-is-an-adorable-platformer-about-hopping-from-shadow-to-shadow/
This year's Day of the Devs is packed with indie games that I very much want to play, but Schim might be at the top of that list. Developed by Ewoud van der Werf, Schim is an environmental platformer about a little blobby frog guy who jumps from shadow to shadow to get around.

Be a water nymph and befriend ducks in chillout game Naiad
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/be-a-water-nymph-and-befriend-ducks-in-chillout-game-naiad/
There's a certain kind of indie game that's all about chill. You explore a slice of the natural world at your own pace, with a little puzzle-solving thrown in, but rarely anything likely to disrupt your meditative flow. The archetype is Flower, in which you're a gentle breeze that blows through fields rustling plants like some kind of invisible petal wizard, but there are plenty of others—games like Proteus, Feather, or Koi.
Naiad, which was shown during the Day of the Devs stream today, seems like a perfect example of the form. You play a water nymph right out of Greek myth who is born at the source of a river and grows up as she travels along it. You swim, dive, and do a froggy underwater dash as you help fish and other animals past obstacles like fallen logs, trash, and traps. Apparently you'll be able to make friends with ducks, butterflies, turtles, rabbits, and even snakes and crocodiles, as well as a talking cloud who acts as a guide.



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Friday news, part three and last:

A Little to the Left is like Unpacking if there was a cat messing with you
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/a-little-to-the-left-is-like-unpacking-if-there-was-a-cat-messing-with-you/
Not-E3 is well underway and while many are sure to be excited by reveals like The Callisto Protocol gameplay and Aliens Dark Descent, I'm more interested in what is perhaps the first Unpacking-like: A Little to the Left. One of 2021's hit indies, Unpacking was a simple game about, believe it or not, unpacking things. It's a light puzzler where you find the 'correct' place for objects in the protagonist's various homes throughout the her development as a young person to an adult. It's very calm, very chilled out, and when there are so many games that pride themselves on bombastic, edge of your seat experiences, it made a good change of pace.

Goodbye World's hazy nostalgia looks set to break my heart
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/goodbye-worlds-hazy-nostalgia-looks-set-to-break-my-heart/
It's been a hot sec since I've been absolutely floored by how beautiful a videogame's graphics are. Modern graphics are an amazing landmark of how far gaming has come technologically in such a short amount of time, but it takes a lot for a game's aesthetic to really speak to me. Yo Fujii's Goodbye World has screamed to me from the goddamn rooftops.

The Grammy Awards adds a dedicated videogame category
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-grammy-awards-adds-a-dedicated-videogame-category/
The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry, has added a new category for its 2023 event dedicated solely to videogames.

You're a skateboarding demon made of glass on a mission to swallow the moon
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/youre-a-skateboarding-demon-made-of-glass-on-a-mission-to-swallow-the-moon/
"You're a demon made of glass and pain." I feel like that's a pretty good pitch for a game on its own, but it only gets more intriguing when the demon picks up a skateboard and starts shredding through the underworld.

The Plucky Squire managed to melt my E3-hardened heart
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-plucky-squire-managed-to-melt-my-e3-hardened-heart/
I gotta be honest: when the trailer for the Plucky Squire opened with a view of a Toy Story-esque child's room, softly lit in the afternoon light, I was prepared to check out. "This is probably not for me," I thought. But as the Plucky Squire storybook opened up to reveal top-down, Zelda-style gameplay in a gorgeous, 2D animation style, I changed my tune quick.
>> Make yourselves a favor and watch the trailer.

Square Enix promises 'short but sweet' update on Final Fantasy 7 next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/square-enix-promises-short-but-sweet-update-on-final-fantasy-7-next-week/
It's been 25 years since the original Final Fantasy 7 was released, which is a fact I'm still not fully ready to come to terms with quite yet. To celebrate Cloud and the crew turning a quarter-century old, Square Enix is hosting a "short but sweet" presentation next week that promises to have a ton of juicy info.

And these are the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:

+GOG

+Steam

Well, that's it. Until next time (probably with loits of news as well), I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.



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AMD confirms Ryzen 8000 lineup: “Strix Point” Zen4 APU to feature RDNA3+ graphics, desktop “Granite Ridge” Zen5 CPU series now official

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-ryzen-8000-lineup-strix-point-zen4-apu-to-feature-rdna3-graphics-desktop-granite-ridge-zen5-cpu-series-now-official

AMD confirms EPYC Zen4 Genoa-X features over 1GB of L3 Cache, Zen5 Turin announced

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-epyc-zen4-genoa-x-features-over-1gb-of-l3-cache-zen5-turin-announced



                  

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Chazore said:

Ngl, but that trailer from Frost Giant kinda felt underwhelming for me.

Also didn't help that I checked out their game's storefront page on Steam, only to find the tags "PVP/F2P/Esports" included with others. I've gottan out of PVP gaming for years now, and I'm really not a huge fan of PVP games crushing other modes, or being the main focus, only for that mode to die out (because PVP based games always come with a limited lifespan) and the lacklusture other mades having suffered because of PVP focus.

Not a big fan of F2P either, and I know folks like Total Biscuit lauded the idea and eventual reality of SC II going F2P, I disliked it heavily, because I'd already bought the game before, 3 expansions, and now the game is riddled with dangled carrots in the form of skins, nova ops and co-op commanders, and announcer packs, all of which put an asking price combined just over £200, which imo is insane.

I just want a fully fledged RTS game where I pay once and it's mine, not a game that has content ripped for it to be sold later on or "added" (the usual defence for F2P or cutting room floor content), and costs trying to rival train simulator.

Really hope I'm wrong, but I just see F2P as a massive thorn in the side of getting good content. I've played HotS for years now and it started as a F2P game, but my god was the RNG lootbox shit annoying, but since that's had to be toned down due to EA's lootbox bs, the game has gotten grindier for obtaining shards to get skins without paying money to get said skins (seriously, it's either got to be a skinners box grind fest or you pay for the skins, and that's what I loathe about F2P, it just embeds those two paths into a game's DNA, there is no 3rd and correct path).

I also just want a PVE based RTS, because PVP is limited, mostly preditable, and I just want to see honest to god good AI in an RTS, instead of one that has fdull map awareness and cheats up the wazoo, and PVP doesn't supply that, since you're just met with the typical:

Cheese builds
Meta focus
Rushing
Spamming deathballs

That's what I've seen over the yrs within that genre and it's become super boring, somewhat arrogant and half witted at times. SCII got it's esports and PVP focus due to micro management and Korea, but C&C didn't really get much if any at all during it's tenure, but that's because they put more stock into their zany stories, units and FMV's (yes SC has a campaign, but more often then not, I see ppl still talking about Pro league, players like White Ra, over kerrigan becoming a literal god at the end of SCII, I shit you not).

Yea it didn't make a good impression. The only good thing about FTP is that I don't have to buy it to try it out so I'll give it a chance when it comes out but there's been too many RTS that tried things out of the norm and flopped.



                  

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